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Tesla founder Elon Musk: Not a friend of trade unions
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Electric car maker Tesla has been held accountable for an anti-union tweet from its boss Elon Musk and other labor law violations in the United States.
In a judgment published on Thursday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) declared the dismissal of an employee who campaigned for the formation of a union illegal.
Tesla must compensate the man for any loss of income and offer to hire him again. The agency also ordered Musk to delete a 2018 tweet. According to the NLRB, the Tesla boss illegally threatened employees, among other things, with losing stock options if they were unionized. There were initially no comments from Tesla and Musk. The group has so far denied misconduct.